Posted on 08/12/2025 9:19:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
Aug 12 (Reuters) - Yahir remembers growing up in Mexico without a bed or a stove. He didn’t own a pair of shoes until he was 10, and in the mid-1990s — when he was 13 — he crossed with a group illegally into the U.S. in search of work.
He settled in California and worked on farms across the state. He met his wife and had six children, the eldest of whom is now 15.
Then, on July 10, Yahir, 43, was apprehended while working at a marijuana farm in southern California, in one of the largest immigration raids since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
“It was like a nightmare, but I was awake,” said Yahir, his skin dotted by sun stains from working in the fields, just hours after being deported to Tijuana. Yahir asked to withhold his last name to protect his family in the U.S.
As Trump ramps up his deportation efforts targeting immigrants in the country illegally, Mexicans - with the largest population of immigrants in the U.S. without status - are living in fear. They are being arrested at restaurants, farms, Home Depot outlets and 7-Eleven convenience stores.
A remarkable 42% of Hispanic adults are worried they or someone close to them might be deported, according to a Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year.
Last week, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to halt a court order restricting immigration stops on the basis of what language they speak or where they work.
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Congratulations Yahir - you’re getting a free trip home.
Another day, another sob story about a noble savage who is enhancing American culture
I have heard Noem say the deal is that those who are caught before they self-deport cannot come back. But one wonders about those who are effectively in captivity. How does that work for kids who were trafficked here and detained under physical duress?
Yahir can now get reacquainted with all his relatives.
Awwwww. So says Lisbeth DIAZ
Besides, who cares? They’re here illegally. . They broke the law.
It’s goin* to take forever if we have only deported 185,000 this year.
“I have heard Noem say the deal is that those who are caught before they self-deport cannot come back.”
Good, they should run ads on TV every day, and in Spanish and any other language advising people of this.
No re-entry for any reason. Not for work. Not for a vacation. Not for medical treatment.
Leave now of your own accord and perhaps one day you might return. Otherwise NO.
This is EXACTLY what I voted for.
If only you were in charge! You could just snap your fingers and all the illegals would instantly be back where they belong!
There is no such thing as logistics!
There's no way welfare will pay for an illegal pot head's six children and stay-at-home baby momma if he actually married her.
Self deporting seems to be working. There are 2.1 million less illegals since Trump took office.
Boo feakin’ hoo! Cry me a river.
This is exactly what I voted for.
They have no allegiance to the US anyway. Their plan is to come here, fleece the taxpayers and have their social security and disability checks sent to Mexico.
That’s exactly what’s going on now. The benefits they get are way beyond reasonable.
They aren’t migrants, they are criminal invaders! Cry us a river Reuters! I don’t allow cr8minals to walk into,my home and eat my food, use my electricity, spend my money, use my vehicles etc! It’s no freaking different with criminal invaders coming here and wrackingmup nearly,a trillion dollars a year in expenses! Taking food,off the tables of citizens, cost8ng civilians massive $$ hosting them, feeding,them, encarcerating many of them, paying for welfare for them, education for them, and to suffer at,their hands as many are outright violent criminals killing,our,citizens, raping them, stealing children for prostitution, etc etc etc!
Those who actually do want to work in America can do so LEGALLY, the right way! But the fact is nearly 75% of illegals go immediately,on,gov support and never get off it!
Every long journey begins with a single footstep. We are nearly a 1/4 of a million gone already, and many more will follow!
>> Raids at farms ensnare migrants who lived in the U.S. for decades
So, criminals who have continuously committed crime for decades are being caught and eliminated. GOOD
>> One detained migrant said an agent in military garb hit him on the head, threatened him with gun
What did the wetback do to deserve it? Too bad the “agent in military garb” didn’t kick him in the nuts and whack him in the face with the gun. Otherwise, GOOD
>> DHS said 185,000 people have been deported from the U.S. this year
GOOD, although I was hoping for ten times that number!
~~~~~~~~~~ IT’S ALL GOOD! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Exactly, right. It’s an invasion that grows exponentially because they get paid to have more children. The government pays for all their health care needs including dental. Top that off with a free car, free house and free food, free home repairs,etc.
It’s INSANE.
>> [Yahir the wetback] met his wife and had six children
Well, that sucks. How many of the illegal spawn are being paid by the gubmint to mooch here? Get him GONE. NOW.
Make Mexico Great Again.
This is what I voted for
Did you notice Trump is checking in with the American people almost every day except Sunday 😇
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